Wearing-apparel.



No. 767,803. PATENTED AUG. 16, 1904 M. A. J. DRISGOLL. WEARING APPAREL.

APPLICATION FILED 001. 10, 1901.

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APPLICATION FILED OUT. 10, 1901.

Patented August 16, 1904.

UNITED STAT S PATENT OEEIcE.

MARY A. J. DRISCOLL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

WEARING-APPAREL.

SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 767,803, dated August 16, 1904,

Application filed October 10, 1901. Serial No. 78,151. (No model.)

To all, whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARY A. J. DRISCOLL, a citizen of the Ui1itedStates,residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and. State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in earing-Apparel, of which the following description, in connection withthe accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention in wearing-apparel relates more especially to combination knitted or union garments.

As union garments are now usually made the fullness over the back of the hips is secured by inserting in the back overlapping gorepieces or flaps the side edges of which are united to the side edges of the leg parts of the garment. Some of these gores or flaps are tapered at their upper ends and extend into the back above the waist-line, and others are straight at their upper ends and are united to the back of the garment by a horizontal seam or are united to the back by picking the loops of the flaps onto the needles used in knitting the back of the garment. The upper edges of these flaps are commonly superimposed or made to overlap one the other evenly, and the outer corners of the upper ends of each flap are united to the back in the line of the seam uniting the outer side edges of the flaps with the back edges of the knitted legs. hlone of these constructions afford, in my opinion, sufficient fabric to afford full covering of the back across the hips below the waist-line, and I have therefore studied to gain greater fullness in the garment across the back of the hips.

I have effected my object by increasing the width of the upper ends of the flaps and overlapping said ends unevenly, so that the outer corner of the upper end of eachfiap extends beyond the outer selvage of the other fiap,and the corner of the upper edge of each flap, which extends beyond the other flap toward the sides of the body, is made to extend beyond the seam uniting the flaps to the back edge of the leg, such construction of the garment insuring an extra amount of fullness to cover the largest hips.

Figure 1 shows in front-view my improved garment. Fig. 2 shows the same in back view, and Fig. 3 shows one of the flaps detached.

My improved garment consists, essentially, of two front piecesAB and A B, a back piece C O 0 and flaps D D. Preferably the garment will have suitable sleeves E E of any desired length and shape.

One way in which the garment may be knitted is to knit the two portions A B and A B of the front separately and the back portion O O C separately and unite the same by seams at the top of the shoulders, as at a, and down the sides, as at b 0, to the ends of the legs, the selvages of-the parts B B and C O being united by the inside seams (Z and d to about the line m, Fig. 1, at or near or preferably a little above the knee. hen knitting the lower portions B B of the front sides of the leg, I prefer to widen the fabric gradually from a point at or near the line in along the edges 6 c substantially to the points 6 e and to leave a suitable opening 0" at the crotch, and at the front of the garment I have knitted the portions B B of like width for about four inches, or to about the line the portions so knitted presenting portions substantially of the length of the course knitted in the line on, and thereafter the fabric which is to constitute the front edges of the body is gradually narrowed to the waist-line, which is indicated by the dotted line 0 This narrowing shapes the garment at the front to fit the abdomen or front of the body below the waist-line, and this is gained without the employment of a W-shaped or double-gore piece commonly connected with the flap. Further, this construction obviates any scam in the front of the garment from the points 0 upwardly, which not only reduces the cost of manufacturing the garment, but makes it far more desirable for the wearer,and a better fit may be insured.

I believe that I am the first to widen the inner edges of the front portions of the garment as described and then knit several courses without widening to leave an opening 0* and thereafter narrow said edges substantially to the waist-line. I

I have described one way of forming the parts A B, A B, and C O C and of uniting the left-hand corner 14: of the top end of the the same by seams; but this invention is not limited to any particular way of forming and uniting the parts just referred to, as instead I may knit the front and back in any otherknown way without departing from my invention to be now described as relating to the flaps.

' In the back of the garment I employ two gores or flaps D D, shaped substantially as represented in Fig. 3, where one of the flaps is shown detached. Each flap may be started, say. from a point 2. The fabric is gradually widened to about the dotted line 5 5. From this line to the dotted line 6 6 the flap is knitted of substantially equal width, and the remaining portion of the flap from the line 6 to the upper end of the flap being narrowed, preferably, at both sides. The like tapered edges 2 5 of each flap are connected by suitable stitching 0 c, as represented in Fig. 1, to the inner edges of one of the front portions B B between the crotch and the knee.

Viewing, now, Fig. 2, showing the back of the garment, the selvage edges 7 of said flaps are united by stitches f, one to the edges 7 and the other to the edge 8 of the back portion of the garment, and the tapered upper end portion of each flap in continuation of the edge 7 is united to the back by stitches f in continuation of the stitches f. Heretofore the upper ends of these flaps, which overlie each other in the waist-line :0, have been of a width to just fill the space between the points 10 and 12 or between the two lines of stitches ff. In accordance with my invention I make the upper ends of the flaps wider than the space between the points 10 and 12, so that, as shown in Fig. 2, the right-hand corner 13 (see full lines) of the upper end of the flap D will extend beyond or to the right of the point 10, where the stitchesf, referred to, meet the back of the garment at or below the waist-line, and

underlying flap I) is connected in the back at or below the waist-line atapoint-beyond or to the left of the line of stitches f, uniting the flap at its edge with the back.

In the garment shown the corners or outer l united to the back at the waist-line by sewing or knitting in any usual way. The flaps may be of any usual shape so long as they are overlapped and united, as herein set, forth, in the back of the garment.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

A union garment having the inner edges of the front portion of the legs knitted and widened near the knee to the'crotch, and thereafter knitted at a uniform width at the front above the crotch, the upper or body portion of said garment being seamless in front from the crotch upward; the back portion of said garment having flaps tapering from the crotch to their lowest points of attachment, their edges being straight and parallel from the crotch to a point about midway between the crotch and the waist-line and from this point to the waistline having their edges equally, though slightly convergent, said flaps being secured to the garment from a point slightly above the knee to a point on the waist-line, the upper edges of the said back flaps overlapping one the other and the upper outer corner of one flap being attached to the garment at a point outside and beyond the point of attachment of the inner corner of the other flap.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARY A. J. DRISCOLL.

WVitnesses:

Gno. W. GREGORY, MARGARET A. DUNN. 

